How we cite our quotes: (Page.Paragraph)
Quote #7
In the later stages of many mythologies, the key images hide like needles in great haystacks of secondary anecdote and rationalization; for when a civilization has passed from a mythological to a secular point of view, the older images are no longer felt or quite approved. (230.1)
Again, the more we think about practical matters, the less connected we are to the big mysteries we should be contemplating. Those old traditions feel fussy and outdated. We need new ones… but they need to serve the same purpose as the older ones.
Quote #8
The simplicity of the origin stories of the undeveloped folk mythologies stands in contrast to the profoundly suggestive myths of the cosmogonic cycle. (268.2)
Everything in Campbell is a balance between opposites, and both sides need attention to maintain the balance. Here, he's talking about how simple older myths were—the straightforward "once upon a time" stories can usually be summed up in a few short minutes.
Quote #9
The heroes become less and less fabulous, until at last, in the final stages of the various local traditions, legend opens into the common daylight of recorded time. (291.1)
Heroes need to be larger than life in some ways. They have to be godlike and engage in wild adventures that we can never expect in our normal lives. That's a sliding scale – Jason Bourne is as much a Campbellian hero as Mr. Spock – but the addition of the fantastic is also a way of connecting us to realms of thought beyond our mundane world.